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Radio astronomy observations in the coming decade will require new levels of sensitivity while mapping large regions of space with much greater efficiency than is achieved with current telescopes. This requires new instrumentation with the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-30 Matthew A. Morgan , J. Richard Fisher

Metasurface antenna arrays, formed by tiling multiple metasurface subapertures, offer an alternative architecture to electrically large beamsteering arrays often used in radar and communications. The advantages offered by metasurfaces are…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Michael Boyarsky , Mohammadreza F. Imani , David R. Smith

To achieve efficient long-range wireless power transfer (WPT), large antenna systems are necessary spanning lengths of tens to thousands of meters in one dimension. This creates an array in the order of at least hundreds of thousands to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Charleston Dale M. Ambatali , Shinichi Nakasuka

Resonant optical phased arrays are a promising way to reach fully reconfigurable metasurfaces in the optical and NIR regimes with low energy consumption, low footprint and high reliability. Continuously tunable resonant structures suffer…

Both the radiation efficiency and bandwidth of electrically small antennas are dramatically reduced as the size decreases. Fundamental limitations on the bandwidth of small antennas have been thoroughly treated in the past. However, upper…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-04-26 Carl Pfeiffer

Far-field imaging beyond the diffraction limit is a long sought-after goal in various imaging applications, which requires usually an array of antennas or mechanical scanning. Here, we present an alternative and novel concept for this…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-10 Lianlin Li , Fang Li , Tiejun Cui , Yunhua Tan , Kan Yao

We propose a superlens formed by an ultra-dense array of crossed metallic wires. It is demonstrated that due to the anomalous interaction between crossed wires, the structured substrate is characterized by an anomalously high index of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 M. G. Silveirinha , C. A. Fernandes , J. R. Costa

Beamforming makes possible a focused communication method. It is extensively employed in many disciplines involving electromagnetic waves, including arrayed ultrasonic, optical, and high-speed wireless communication. Conventional beam…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-31 Shiyi Xia , Mingyang Zhao , Qian Ma , Xunnan Zhang , Ling Yang , Yazhi Pi , Hyunchul Chung , Ad Reniers , A. M. J. Koonen , Zizheng Cao

Next generation wireless base stations and access points will transmit and receive using extremely massive numbers of antennas. A promising technology for realizing such massive arrays in a dynamically controllable and scalable manner with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-17 Nir Shlezinger , George C. Alexandropoulos , Mohammadreza F. Imani , Yonina C. Eldar , David R. Smith

Arrayed waveguide gratings (AWGs) are key optical components of various new applications in telecommunication, astrology, medical imaging, and spectroscopy. It is a very powerful integrated light dispersion technology with significant…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-10 Arthur C. van Wijk , Christopher R. Doerr , B. Imran Akca

This paper introduces a framework for synthesizing reactively loaded antennas and antenna arrays. The framework comprises two main components: computing the fundamental bound using the semi-definite relaxation and finding a realizable…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Albert Salmi , Miloslav Capek , Lukas Jelinek , Anu Lehtovuori , Ville Viikari

In this paper, we investigate the design of artificial-noise-aided secure multi-antenna transmission in slow fading channels. The primary design concerns include the transmit power allocation and the rate parameters of the wiretap code. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xi Zhang , Xiangyun Zhou , Matthew R. McKay

Fluid antenna systems encompass a broad class of reconfigurable antenna technologies that offer substantial spatial diversity for various optimization objectives and communication tasks. Their capability to enhance spatial resolution within…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jingyuan Xu , Zhentian Zhang , Jian Dang , Hao Jiang , Zaichen Zhang

The upper bound on antenna gain is expressed as a sum of lossy characteristic modes, specifically, as a sum of characteristic far fields squared. The procedure combines the favorable properties of Harrington's classical approach to maximum…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-12-25 Miloslav Capek , Lukas Jelinek

We review the use of graphene to develop reconfigurable, miniaturized, and efficient terahertz (THz) antennas and associated feeding networks, and attempt to identify current research trends and mid- and long-term challenges and prospects.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 D. Correas-Serrano , J. S. Gomez-Diaz

Reconfigurable antennas (RAs), capable of dynamically adapting their radiation patterns, polarization states, and operating frequencies, have emerged as a promising technology to meet the stringent performance requirements of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Mengzhen Liu , Ming Li , Rang Liu , Qian Liu , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Recent progress in nanotechnology has enabled us to fabricate subwavelength architectures that function as antennas for improving the exchange of optical energy with nanoscale matter. We describe the main features of optical antennas for…

Optics · Physics 2012-02-02 Mario Agio

This paper presents radiation efficiency and gain bounds for microstrip patch antennas. The presented bounds are shown to be good predictors of antenna performance. Using the bounds, patch miniaturization techniques based on high…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-29 Ben A. P. Nel , Anja K. Skrivervik , Mats Gustafsson

Radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting is widely used for supporting physical layer security in various wireless applications. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a small antenna with low-cost fabrication that can be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Sheng Huang , Cory Hilton , Steve Bush , Faiz Sherman , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

In the recent evolution of wireless technologies, the power management has been a worrying factor. In order to overcome the power shortage, steps are taken to find new kind of energy harvesting methods, power attenuation reduction methods…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-02-22 S. Venkata Krishnan , R. Sriram , N. Senthil Kumar